O.K., now I have a question regarding the heat shield. I know that the throttle return springs need to hook up to something, but do I have to re-use the heatshield for this purpose or can I fabricate a bracket using the heatshield as a template? Again, thanks for all the help out there for previous questions.

Mike,

So you want no heatshield to help cool those float bowls in 100+ degree summer temps in Redding? If that's the case it wont make much difference where you connect the return springs...... Nyuck nyuck

Datsun run being scheduled for later this summer in Eureka. Interested?

You don't have to use the original heatshield, but as Bruce notes, you WILL want a heatshield of some sort there.

Yeah ok....like I said I didn't know if there was another way to go, so I'll go ahead and keep the shield. And in the mean time, I'm going to look into fabbing some other kind of shield for those bowls, that heat shield is ugly. I have noticed, in various pictures the use of heat wrap in the engine bay. i've seen some used on the fuel rails as well.

And yeah I would be interested in the Eureka Datsun Run, keep me posted Bruce, thanks, thank you too, Arne